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Abandoned salt bin
Motorists will have to purchase a “pay and display” ticket as happens in other car parks.
The move has been made possible by increased congestion caused by road works and the closure of Lendal Bridge.
Mr I. B. Stuck commented that he hoped that a “pay by phone” option would be made available before his newly ordered camper van was delivered, by air, to the lay-by near Tesco.
“I’m looking forward to my holiday overlooking the River Ouse but I don’t want to have to get out to buy another ticket every time a wheel turns”.
Council transport statistics click to enlarge
A Council spokesman said it was likely that Mr Stuck would remain stuck at least until the new A59 Park and Ride site opened in the spring.
The Council hopes to extend its pay and display scheme to cover the Hull Road, Fulford Road and Foss Islands Road all of which the spokesman described as “having potential”.
NB. The latest Council report on congestion levels has been published. Well actually it hasn’t. We are told that the figures for traffic volumes are being “cleansed” but will be available “towards the end of October”.
Today is the 1st November.
After a slow start (probably the result of the bad publicity following last years poor show) ticket sales are increasing.
This despite the increase in prices with children being discouraged from attending the paid for events at Cliffords Tower and in the Museum Gardens.
The Councils budget for the event is understood to be £175,000 with the Arts Council contributing £73,000 of this.
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Free events like the illuminated A4 locos at the railway Museum are very popular.
Until 2011, the costs of the event were all covered by sponsorship. The new Labour Council introduced admission charges although the total costs of staging the event remained broadly the same.
The event continues tonight (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday)
Ticket details can be found here.
Reliance buses will also benefit from the same pot of funding, with the installation of new exhausts that will help reduce poor emissions in the city.
Details of the supplementary allocation were released 3 weeks ago.
A City Sight Seeing bus, operated by Transdev, will become the first double decker in the UK to be converted from diesel to pure electric with lithium ion batteries, similar to those used by mobile phones.
Converting from diesel to electric will have substantial benefits for air quality as the bus is used intensively in the city centre. The cost of the conversion will be £75k, but will save an estimated £15k a year in fuel costs.
The remaining DfT funding will be used to retrofit two diesel buses operated by Reliance, along the A19 route,with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) exhaust technology which reduces emissions of small particles.
Although the Council has cut back on the number of amenity skips it provides, several residents associations continue to run programmes aimed at making it easier for tenants to get rid of unwanted items.
The skips are only in place for a few minutes and residents must ensure that they put any rubbish into the skips and do not leave it on the path or highway.
1 Bramham Rd 08:30 09:30 Community Centre
2 North Lane 10:30 11:30
3 Bramham Rd 12:30 13:30 Grange Lane
4 Don Ave 08:30 09:30
5 Stuart Rd 10:30 11:30
6 Windsor Garth 12:30 13:30
7 Kingsway West 08:30 09:30
8 Hebden Rise 10:30 11:30
